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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa
Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...
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Characteristics of severe Atlantic hurricanes in the United States: 1949–2006
Changnon, Stanley - In: Natural Hazards 48 (2009) 3, pp. 329-337
catastrophes, causing $150.6 billion in losses and averaging $2.6 billion per year. All aspects of these hurricanes showed … of the ten most damaging hurricanes came in 2004 (4) and 2005 (3). The number of hurricanes also peaked during 1984 …-year total. Various reasons have been offered for such recent increases in hurricane losses including more hurricanes, more …
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Diferencias departamentales en las causas de mortalidad en Colombia
Otero, Andrea - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2013
The main mortality causes for Colombia in 2010 are in the direction of the phenomenon known as Epidemiologic Transition. Among these we can find neoplasms and heart diseases as the factors with highest death incidence. Physical aggressions and homicides also cause a large number of deaths in the...
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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900
Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....
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Sins of the Father: The Intergenerational Legacy of the 1959-61 Great Chinese Famine on Children’s Cognitive Development
Tan, Chih Ming; Tan, Zhibo; Zhang, Xiaobo - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2014
The intergenerational effect of fetal exposure to malnutrition on cognitive ability has rarely been studied for human beings in large part due to lack of data. In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment, the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61, and employ a novel data set, the China Family Panel...
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Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden
Ager, Philipp; Hansen, Casper Worm; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2014
We examine how the introduction of smallpox vaccination affected early-life mortality and fertility in Sweden during the first half of the 19th century. We demonstrate that parishes in counties with higher levels of smallpox mortality prior to the introduction of vaccination experienced a...
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The diffusion of health technologies: Cultural and biological divergence
Hansen, Casper Worm - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 21-34
This paper proposes the hypothesis that genetic distance to the health frontier influences population health outcomes. Evidence from a world sample suggests that genetic distance, interpreted as long-term cultural and biological divergence, is an important factor in understanding health...
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Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden
Ager, Philipp; Worm Hansen, Casper; Sandholt Jensen, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We examine how the introduction of smallpox vaccination affected early-life mortality and fertility in Sweden during the first half of the 19th century. We demonstrate that parishes in counties with higher levels of smallpox mortality prior to the introduction of vaccination experienced a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110769
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Son Preference, Fertility Decline and Non-Missing Girls of Turkey
Altindag, Onur - Department of Economics, Graduate Center - 2015
Son preference is usually revealed by both gender discrimination in relative care and son-targeting fertility stopping rules. This article shows that couples in Turkey exhibit strong son preference without causing a gender imbalance in the population. Estimation results reveal that a first-born...
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What risks do agricultural interventions entail for nutrition?
Dury, S.; Alpha, A.; Bichard, A. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2014
Agricultural development status impact individual nutrition through food, health and care practices. Many recent studies are focused on the positive side of the impact pathways. However, in some cases, those interventions may have negative outcomes on nutrition. We explore those potential...
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